Like, where do we use them? How about putting them in an age, like 22-year-old? But, don’t put them in perfectly good words like overrated. See example below from Yahoo! Shine for details:
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Things we don’t get: hyphens
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July 30, 2008 at 8:03 am
At least give the writer credit for using the correct number of hyphens. Next we can work on getting them in the right places.